Bacchus In The Pillory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCDDEECFGHHCDDEE CC AAAIIJKKLMJNNJJJBBOO JJ AAAGMBJJJJBGGGGGJJPP GG| Twirl him twirl him blind and dumb | A |
| Deaf and dumb | A |
| Twirl the cane so troublesome | A |
| Sprigs of fashion by the dozen | B |
| Thou dost bring to book good cousin | B |
| Cousin thou art not in clover | C |
| Many a head that's filled with smoke | D |
| Thou hast twirled and well nigh broke | D |
| Many a clever one perplexed | E |
| Many a stomach sorely vexed | E |
| Turning it completely over | C |
| Many a hat put on awry | F |
| Many a lamb chased cruelly | G |
| Made streets houses edges trees | H |
| Dance around us fools with ease | H |
| Therefore thou are not in clover | C |
| Therefore thou like other folk | D |
| Hast thy head filled full of smoke | D |
| Therefore thou too art perplexed | E |
| And thy stomach's sorely vexed | E |
| For 'tis turned completely over | C |
| Therefore thou art not in clover | C |
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| Twirl him twirl him blind and dumb | A |
| Deaf and dumb | A |
| Twirl the carle so troublesome | A |
| Seest thou how our tongues and wits | I |
| Thou hast shivered into bits | I |
| Seest thou this licentious wight | J |
| How we're fastened to a string | K |
| Whirled around in giddy ring | K |
| Making all like night appear | L |
| Filling with strange sounds our ear | M |
| Learn it in the stocks aright | J |
| When our ears wild noises shook | N |
| On the sky we cast no look | N |
| Neither stock nor stone reviewed | J |
| But were punished as we stood | J |
| Seest thou now licentious wight | J |
| That to us yon flaring sun | B |
| Is the Heidelbergers' tun | B |
| Castles mountains trees and towers | O |
| Seem like chopin cups of ours | O |
| Learn'st thou now licentious wight | J |
| Learn it in the stocks aright | J |
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| Twirl him twirl him blind and dumb | A |
| Deaf and dumb | A |
| Twirl the carle so troublesome | A |
| Kinsman once so full of glee | G |
| Kinsman where's thy drollery | M |
| Where thy tricks thou cunning one | B |
| All thy tricks are spent and past | J |
| To the devil gone at last | J |
| Like a silly fop thou'lt prate | J |
| Like a washerwoman rate | J |
| Thou art but a simpleton | B |
| Now thou mayest more shame to thee | G |
| Run away because of me | G |
| Cupid that young rogue may glory | G |
| Learning wisdom from thy story | G |
| Haste thou sluggard hence to flee | G |
| As from glass is cut our wit | J |
| So like lightning 'twill be split | J |
| If thou won't be chased away | P |
| Let each folly also stay | P |
| Seest my meaning Think of me | G |
| Idle one away with thee | G |
Friedrich Schiller
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